07 December, 2016

What Renzi failed to understand

After
the heavy defeat in the recent referendum, the Italian PM, Matteo
Renzi, announced his desire to resign. Renzi is a typical sample of
the youngest politicians in Europe who restrict their action in a
rhetoric of resistance against Berlin's orders inside eurozone.
Another typical sample: the Greek PM, Alexis Tsipras.

But
when he had to take crucial decisions, Renzi retreated in almost
every aspect against the majority of the Italians. The most
disgraceful decision was the relaxation of labour and employment
laws. In the end, Renzi did what the big capital and Berlin dictated.

It
is highly doubtful whether the majority of the Italians bothered to
look at the details of the changes in constitution that Renzi wanted
to pass through the referendum. Yet, it didn't really matter because
Renzi and many other European 'leaders', still don't understand that
the negative votes from people in most of the referendums are coming
from the fact that they have completely lost trust to the political
establishment.

At
this point, of course, we have to assume that in the ongoing
political crisis in Italy, Renzi could be just a puppet which takes
orders from the economic oligarchy. In case that he has been pressed
to step down and be replaced by another technocrat-puppet of ECB, the
result of the referendum could be only an excuse to resign. Just
remember the case of Berlusconi.

It
seems that the politically unstable Italy, becomes the model through
which the financial oligarchy wants to rule from now on. As described
in a potential scenario
for the day after the Greek national elections of 2015:

Neither
the neoliberal nor the anti-neoliberal front will be able to form
government. In that case, the political dead end through repeated
elections may give the suitable excuse to see a technocratic
government by banking puppets, which will be presented as the only
viable solution. This sub-experiment has already been tested in
Greece and Italy through the banking puppets Papademos and Monti.
This "solution"-parameter in the Greek experiment could be
proved a dangerous threat to European parliamentary democracy, as may
be used in other countries in times of political crises, becoming
permanent practice and finally, establishing definitely the
sovereignty of the plutocrats against the majority.